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Bavarian riflemen and women in traditional costumes load their muzzle loaders in front of the ‘Bavaria’ statue on the last day of the Oktoberfest beer festival in Munich, southern Germany, Sunday, Oct. 5, 2014. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
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Bavarian riflemen in traditional costumes arrive for the salute shooting in front of the ‘Bavaria’ statue on the last day of the Oktoberfest beer festival in Munich, southern Germany, Sunday, Oct. 5, 2014. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
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FC Bayern Munich’s Head coach Pep Guardiola, left, and his wife Cristina visit the Oktoberfest beer festival on the closing day in Munich, southern Germany, Sunday, Oct. 5, 2014. (AP Photo/FC Bayern Munich, Bongarts,Getty Images, Alexandra Beier, Pool)
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FC Bayern Munich’s Franck Ribery of France, second right, his wife Wahiba Ribery, right, and their children visit the Oktoberfest beer festival on the closing day in Munich, southern Germany, Sunday, Oct. 5, 2014. (AP Photo/FC Bayern Munich, Bongarts,Getty Images, Alexandra Beier, Pool)
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FC Bayern Munich’s Thomas Mueller and his wife Lisa Mueller visit the Oktoberfest beer festival on the closing day in Munich, southern Germany, Sunday, Oct. 5, 2014. (AP Photo/FC Bayern Munich, Bongarts,Getty Images, Alexandra Beier, Pool)
MUNICH (AP) — Sixteen days of beer-soaked revelry have come to a close with the traditional gun salute that heralds the end of Munich’s annual Oktoberfest.
Authorities say some 6.3 million visitors came to this year’s event which ended Sunday, and 6.5 million 1-liter (2.11-pint) mugs of beer were drunk.
Police recorded a drop in crime this year to 1,290 offenses, down from 1,525 in 2013. The incidents included at least one attempted heist of a trolley full of beer mugs and the destruction of a ‘monster’ in a fairground ghost train by a visitor who had taken offense at being spooked.
The lost property office declared it had received, among other items, 230 pairs of spectacles, two wedding rings, a set of dentures, a French horn, and a ball and chain.